Kilian Martin goes through a lot to get us all to watch him work his flatland freestyling. Is it working? We’re not sure.
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Halfpipe judging is always suspect, but never more so when an amagingly talented new kid goes up against a well established halfpipe juggernaut like Shaun White. That’s what happened, apparently, in the second run of the 31st Burton US Open Snowboarding Championship at Vail, Colorado on Saturday, March 2, 2013 when just crowed World Snowboard Tour Halfpipe Champion Ayumu Hirano, 14, went up against White in the second run. White ended up 8.18 points ahead of Hirano even though many people agree that Hirano’s run was one of the best they’ve seen. White, however, had his say in the second run.
Coming off of his 6th consecutive X Games win, Shaun White put together an unbeatable second run at the US Open with a top score of 95.58, earning him his fifth US Open men’s half pipe victory – in addition to his two US Open men’s slope style titles. His winning trick combination included a backside air, frontside 1080 double cork stale fish grab, Cab 1080 double cork melon grab, frontside 540 stale fish grab, backside 1260 double McTwist mute grab, to a frontside 1260 double cork stale fish grab. Shaun also claimed the top five highest trick scores of the day. . . “It was incredible to get my fifth US Open half pipe title in Vail, and hands down, this is the best pipe of the year,” said Shaun White. “I’m pretty happy to end my season with a win at the US Open.”
Hirano’s second run included a Method Air, Frontside 1080 Tail Grab, Cab 1080 Nose Grab , Frontside 900 Tail Grab, Backside 540 Mute Grab, Frontside 1080 Double Cork Indy Grab. So the truth is, while the judges may have been a little off (or a lot) on the numbers, they were not off on the placing order.
For the women, Kelly Clark won her sixth US Open title over For the official word from Burton and video of Hirano’s second place run follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Wall Street Journal writer Conor Dougherty looks into the new realm of private skate parks in a story titled, I Say, That’s One Gnarly Grind You Just Executed, Aging Skateboarders Join Exclusive Venues to Avoid Those Darn Kids. In the story Dougherty covers the Dark Arts Blood Bowl in Minneapolis (with Jef VanSyoc), The DonutHill Project in Omaha (with Kevin Wilkins), and the DOS Bowl in Portland (with Ken Dahlgren).
The DonutHill Project, a key club in the Omaha area, has a general rule that only skaters can come as guests: Don’t bring lurkers who only want to hang out. . . They also have a “kook list” of skaters who aren’t welcome. . . “It’s kind of for the people who made it happen,” says Kevin Wilkins, a DonutHill key holder and editor of The Skateboard Mag. “If you run it any other way, you jeopardize what you built.”
Backyard ramps and parks have always been pretty hidden and exclusive, it’s nice that everyone is beginning to share the expenses in a more much official way.
[Link: The Wall Street Journal]
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It was all Canada at the top of the Burton US Open Snowboarding Championship slopestyle podium yesterday (March 1, 2013) as Mark McMorris (video above) and Spencer O’Brien ruled the Vail, Colorado course.
While snow fell steadily all day, the riding level remained high with competitors working hard under tough conditions. Mark McMorris took his first ever US Open men’s slopestyle victory with a winning run that included a MINI wallride to gap to lipslide, gap to backside lipslide, double backflip indy grab, frontside 1080 mute grab to a backside 1080 mute grab. Coming in second was Torstein Horgmo (NOR), who arguably had the best rail trick of the day, and rounding out the podium in third was Chas Guldemond (USA). . . “Winning the US Open is one of the highlights from my season, and I think everyone is psyched to see it in Vail,” said Mark McMorris. “Conditions were a little rough, but I kept my speed up, and these are the best jumps ever built in slopestyle. I’m having more fun than I’ve ever had and to be sharing the podium with my good friends is really fun.”
O’Brien edged usual winner Jamie Anderson by .45 of a point. For the official word from Burton, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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We missed it this year, but the JLA Banked Slalom at Mammoth Mountain looks like an great gathering. We hope it keeps going in years to come.
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If we had an excuse for this late post we would have included it right here, fool. But we don’t got none, homie. Word.
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How is Gretchen Bleiler getting ready for her big return to competitive snowboarding? According to Shape.com she’s been training with Go Pro Workouts. For edits of three of her workout moves (porno music included), follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Salomon Bonfire would like you to better appreciate the snowboarding skills of their standout rider Louif Paradis. What better way to do that than with a promotional video edit all his own. This one, designed to give us all in intimate, up-close view of the snowboarding superstar is appropriately titled At Home With Louif. Enjoy.
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An Albuquerque teen who was reportedly trying to throw a snowball while riding a chairlift at Ski Santa Fe found out the hard way that messing around on chairlifts is a bad idea, according to a story in the Santa Fe New Mexican.
“Basically, the kid is home and he is fine,” said Cody Sheppard, the ski patrol director at Ski Santa Fe. “It was kind of a dramatic deal. I guess he was attempting to throw a snowball to the chair in front of him, where some friends were, and when he threw the snowball, the momentum just carried him out of the chair. He did hang on for awhile, but then he had to drop.”
The kid was reportedly helicoptered off the mountain, and suffered a “concussion, skull fracture, collapsed lung and a lacerated liver,” but none of it required surgery. Unbelievable. We’re still kind of wondering what happened to his snowboard.
[Link: Santa Fe New Mexican via Boing Boing]
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